Race-hustling, poverty-pimp Al Sharpton has been bitch-slapped by the Federal Elections Commission with nearly $500,000 in fines for jumbling expenses from his private businesses with those for his failed 2004 US presidential campaign.
“Virtually no effort appears to have been made by Sharpton 2004, the Candidate, NAN or Rev-Als Production Inc. to keep any sort of detailed records demonstrating what payments paid for which travel, which trips were for multiple purposes, or which legs of multipurpose trips included campaign activity at those stops,” FEC investigators wrote.
Among the improprieties auditors found was a birthday party Sharpton threw for himself in 2004, with NAN paying for the entertainment and Sharpton 2004 covering the cost of the venue.
FEC auditors said the actual amount of improper financing could be as high as $735,314, but because of shoddy records, they could substantiate only $486,803. Sharpton, who recently settled a long-stand IRS bill worth millions, must now pay back $486,803.
Sharpton aides blasted the ruling as a “gross violation” of his rights and vowed to appeal the decision.
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